Sylfaen (typeface)

Sylfaen (typeface)

Sylfaen is a WGL4-compatible serif OpenType typeface packaged with Windows XP. It covers the complete Armenian script and the minuscules of the Georgian alphabet.

The name "Sylfaen" is a Welsh word meaning . [ [http://www.tiro.nu/Articles/sylfaen_article.pdf Sylfaen : Foundations of Multiscript Typography] , John Hudson, 2000.]

In 1997, Tiro was hired by Microsoft Typography to consult on the production of support materials for OpenType font development. Part of this project was producing a multi-script font used for displaying glyphs in the Web Resourcefor International Typography (WRIT) database, which was a tool for establishing character and glyph requirements for given languages, geographical areas or scripts (or combinations thereof).

The fonts shipped with Windows 2000 and XP only include a subset of the original designs. In particular, IPA, Polytonic Greek, Ethiopic glyphs are missing.

Nyala

In 2003–04, John Hudson completely re-drew the Sylfaen Ethiopic glyphs from the original Sylfaen, regularising them and making them suited to a wider range of publishing needs. This re-design was released by Microsoft in Windows Vista, under the name Nyala.

References

External links

* [http://tiro.com/projects.html Tiro Typeworks projects] contains Sylfaen


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